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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



May 2. ISQS- 



MISCELLANIES. 



SIR HENRY WOTTON. 



The follOKing is extracted from ReKquce fVettoriianna' , first 

 printed in 1657. — {From the Bostoti LUerar7j Gazel/e.j 



A DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY'S RECREATIONS. 



Quivering fear, heart-tearing cares, 

 Alurous sighs, untimely tears, 

 F)y, fly to courts ! 

 Fiy to fond worldlings' sports, 

 "Where strain'd Sardonic smiles are glossing still, 

 And gric/is forc'd to laugh against her will: 

 Where mirth's biu munnnery, 

 And sorrows only real be ! 



Fly from our country pastimes! fly. 

 Sad troop of human misery ! 

 Come, serene looks. 

 Clear as the chrysta! brooks. 

 Or the pure azur'd heaven, that smiles to sec 

 The rich attendance on our poverty ! 

 Peace and a secure mind, 

 Which all men seek, we only find. 



Abused mortals ! did yoo know 

 Where joy, hearts ease, and comforts grow, 

 You 'd scorn pi oud towers. 

 And seek them m these bowers 

 Where winds sometimes our woods perhaps may shake 

 But blustering care could never teinpest make, 

 Nor murmurs e'er come nigh us. 

 Saving of fountains that glide by us. 



Here 's no fantastic masque, nor dance, 

 But of our kids, that frisk and prance; 

 Nor wars are seen. 

 Unless up the green 

 Two harmless lambs are butting one the other ; 

 Which done, both bleating run, each to his mother; 

 And wounds are never found. 

 Save what the plough-share gives the ground. 



Go, let the diving negro seek 

 For gems, hid in some forlorn creek ! 

 We all pearls scorn. 

 Save what tlie dewy morn 

 Congeals upon each little spire of grass, 

 Which careless shepherds beat down as they pass; 

 And gold ne'er here appears. 

 Save what the yellow Ceres bears. 



Blest, silent groves ! O may ye be 

 For ever mirth's best nursery ! 

 May pure contents 



For ever pitch their tents , 



Upon these downs, these meads, these rocks, these mountains. 

 And peace still slumber by these purling fountains. 

 Which we may every year 

 Find, when we come a-fishing here. 



Phrenology. — Mr. Abernethy, in his late course 

 of Lectures, made the following remarks on this 

 science. — " With respect to the supposed possi- 

 hility of ascertaining men's dispositions and 

 characters from the shape of their heads and 

 faces, I will make one observation — that I have 

 seen various skulls — here is one, for instance — 

 in which you see several considerable elevations 

 on the outside surface, without there being any 

 corresponding depression on the inside. I need 

 not tell you, that where there is no hollow in the 

 skull inside, there could have been no enlarge- 

 ment of brain ; and this wag an argument used 

 against the phrenologists by Dv. Barlow. Now I 

 don't use it or any other argument against them • 



I don't let my mind think of the subject at all. 



You may do as you like, but I don't care about it ; 

 but as I said to Dr. Spurzehim at the very outset 



" Why, Doctor, said I, it may be all very true what 

 you say ; but I'll not enter into it ;" I don't wish 

 to enter into it; for I think it a very unhandsome 

 thing, a very unfair thins, to judge a man's mo- 

 tives and intentions by his outward appearance at 

 all. Judge of a man by his actions — look to his 

 conduct — see what that is, and you'll not go a- 

 stray in your opinions. Ah, there is a wise pipce 

 of advice, " Judge not, lest yourselves be judged," 

 — and for you to take it upon you t<> infer the 

 motives and dispositions of any man, upon any less 

 authority than the tenour of his ictions, is a thing 

 that I am sure you have no right to do." 



Powerful Language. — All the performances of 

 human art, at which we look with praise and won- 

 der, are instances of the resistless force of human 

 pei-severance. It is by this that the quarry be- 

 comes a pyramid, and that distant countries are 

 united by canals. If a man were to compare the 

 effect of a single stroke of the pickaxe, oi of one 

 impression of a spade, with the general design or 

 last result, he would he-overwhelmed by the sense 

 of their disproportion. — Yet these petty operations, 

 incessantly continued, in time surmount the great- 

 eat difficulties ; and mountains are levelled, and 

 oceans bounded, by the slender force of human 

 beings. It is, therefore, of the utmost importance 

 that those who have any intention of deviating 

 from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a rep- 

 utation superior to names hourly swept away by 

 time, among the refuse of fame, should add to 

 their reason, and their .spirit, the power of persist- 

 ing in their purpose — acquire the art of sapping 

 what they cannot batter, and the habit of van- 

 quishing obstinate resistance, by obstinate at- 

 tacks. — Dr. Joh7iaon. 



ESTABLISHMENT FOK SbLL'.s. 

 For sale at the Seed Establishment, connected with the offioe 

 of the New Euglant) Farmer, No. 52 North Market Street. Bos- 

 ton, the largest variety of Seeds to be found in New England — 

 •f the crops of 1827. The greatest care has t>eeo taken lo have 

 them raised by our most experienced seed growers, and lo havi 

 the sorts perfectly genuine. The following comprises some o: 

 owr most prominent sorts. 



Artichokr, Green Globe 



Asparagus, I>evonshire 

 Gravesend 

 Baltersea 

 Large white Reading 



Beatis, Karlv Yellow Cranberrv 

 Earl'v Mohawk 

 F.arl'y Yellow six Week: 

 Early Canadian Dwarf 

 Earlv China Dwarf 

 DuarfClu-^ter 

 While Kidnev Dwarf 

 While Cranbefry Dwarf 

 Red Cranberry Dwarf 

 Warrinalon or Marroi 

 Thousand to One 

 Large White Lima 

 Saba, or Carolina 

 Ri-d Cranlierry string 

 White Cranberry string 

 Broad Windsor 

 Field 



Beets, true Long Blood 



Early blood Turnip 

 Early White Scarcity 

 French Sugar, or Amber 



Or; 



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Extract from a travMer^s notes — from the JYeiv 

 Hampshire Sentinel. 



Joseph Bonaparte. — The citizens' line of coach- 

 es through New Jersey, pass the residence of the 

 late king of Spain, at Bordcnlown, on the Dela- 

 ware. His estate occupies a large territory. His 

 house is in the French style, but not splendid. 

 His lands, on which immense sums have been ex- 

 pended, are well cultivated. In all public im- 

 provements he contributes liberally — something 

 like four thousand dollars, [I am told] he paid on 

 one road. He is much beloved, and his memory 

 will be ever dear to the villagers. 



There is scarcely now. a poor family in the vil- 

 lage, so many does he employ on his lands. He 

 pays liberally — punctually — fulfilling all his con- 

 tracts — no law suits — no disputes, and the intem- 

 perate and immoral are at once discharged. He 

 is constantly, [in the season of agriculture] in the 

 fields with big men, and is constantly with an ele 

 gant pruning hatchet in his hand. Strangers who 

 are introduced, partake liberally of his hospitality. 

 He has thus e.xchangcd a coronet of thorns for 

 that of a peaceful agriculturalist, and become a 

 citizen of our happy republic. 



Coffee. — The lovers of Coffee may be pleased 

 to learn the origin, which the Persians have giv- 

 en to this delightful beverage. Their belief is, 

 " that it was invented and brewed by the Angel 

 Gabriel to restore Mahomet's decayed moisture, 

 which it did effectually." 



Early Vegetables.— CticuniheTB, five or six inch- 

 es in length, fit for use, have been produced in 

 Montreal. 



Green, (for soups, &c.) 

 Borerote 



Brocoli. Earlv While 

 Early Purple 

 Large Cape 

 Brussels f^prouts. 

 Cabbage, Early Salsbury dwarf 

 Earlv York 

 Earlv Dutch 

 Early Suiarloaf 

 Earlv Lon. Batiersea 

 F.ailv Emperor 

 Early Wellington 

 Large Bergen. &c. 

 Large Cape Savoy 

 (.arge Scotch 

 Large Green glazet 

 Large late Drumhead 

 Tree, or 1000 headed 

 Green Globe Savoy 

 Red Dutch 

 Yellow Savoy 

 Turnip rooted, &c. 

 Russian 

 F.ate Imperial 

 Late Sugarloaf 

 Ca7-doon. 



Carrots. Aitringham 

 Early Horn 

 Blood Red(for West In- 

 dia market) 

 Lemon 

 Long Orange 

 Cremer 

 Cfmlifio^eer. Early and Late 

 Cilery, White solid 



Rose coloured solid 

 Italian 



Celeriac, or turnip rooted 

 rhervil. 

 CIm-es. 



Corn Salad, or Vetlikost 

 Cress, Curled or Pcppcrgrass 

 Broad leaved or Garden 

 Water 



Lon^Orange 

 Cucinnber, Early Frame 

 Green Cluster 

 Short Prickly 

 Long Prickly 

 Long green "Turkey 

 Long white Turkey 

 \^'hlte Spined 

 Small Girkin, &c. 

 £v»- PlaiU. Purple 

 White 

 Endive, Green 



White Curled 

 broad leaved Batavian 

 Garden Burnet 

 Garlic Setts 



Indian Com, (several varieties) 

 Kale, Sea 



Purple curled 

 Green curly Scotch 

 Leek, London 



Large Scotch 



Lcai/cf,Early Curled Silesia 

 Large Green head 

 Royal Cape 

 Imperial 

 Hardy Green 

 Brown Dutch 

 Grand Admiral 

 T.'iinisball, ur Rose 

 Drumhead 



Magnum Bonum Coss 

 Haili Coss 

 Ice Coss 



While Coss, or Loaf, 

 Green Coss 

 Melon. Vnx Apple 

 Green ( "iiron 

 I'.rsan 

 Nuimeg 



Large Canieleupe 

 Pomegranate, or Musk 

 Carolina Water 

 I, one Island Water 

 Apple seeded. Water 

 MarjoraJti, 



Mustard, White and Brown 

 Nasiwtiiim 

 Mangef Wurizel, 

 Okra 



Onion. Polatoe 

 Tree 



While Portugal 

 Yellow 

 Madeira 

 Stratsburg 

 Large Red 

 Parsley, Siberian 



Dwarf Curled 

 Curled, or Double 

 Parsnip, Large Dutch swelliu'- 



Silver Skinned 

 Peas, (14 varieties.) 

 Peppers, Long, or Cayenne 

 Tomato, or Squash 

 Bell 

 Cherry 

 Pumpkins, Fines! Family 



Connecticut Field 

 Mammoth 

 Radish, Early Frame 



Short lop Scarlet 

 Lrng Salmon 

 Purple Short Top 

 Long white, or Naples 

 Cherry 



Violet colored 

 \\ hile Turnip Rooted 

 Black Fall, or Spanish 

 Rhubarb, for tarts, &c. 

 Ruta Baga, 



Salsaf II, nr vegetable oyster 

 Sea Kate, 

 Stirret 

 Scorzonera 

 Saffron, 



Spinach, New Zealand 

 Prickly, or Fall 

 RouBtlleaved summer 

 Eng. Patience Dock 

 Sage, 



Squash, Early bush Summer 

 Long Crook Neck 

 Vegetable Marrow- 

 Porter's Valparaiso 

 Acorn 

 Tomatcs 



Turnips, Early WTiite Dutch 

 Early Garden Stone 

 While Flat, or Globe 

 Green Round 

 Red Round 

 Swan's Egg 

 Large Eng. Norfolk 

 Long TanKard 

 Long Yellow FrencI' 

 Y'cllow Dutch 

 Yellow Maltese 

 Y'ellow Aberdeen 

 Y'ellow Stone 

 Y'cllow Swedish 

 Tliiinu—Sieeet Basil— Bontsei; 

 Lavender — Rosemanj — Hyssop, 

 Wormwood — Summer Savon/, 

 Penny royal— Spikenard— Dill. 

 \Babn— Taii^y—Beiie, ^-c-, 



